Free Sound Recorder Feature List

General Features

Real-time sound recorder, offering professional recording features
with full mp3/wma/wav support.

Direct to disk ability allows you to record
sound without running out of memory.

Free
Sound Recorder is designed to work directly with your sound card and
can record almost all audio from your sound card at
near-perfect quality. You can record sound from a microphone,
line-in, and just about any media program (such as Winamp, RealPlayer,
Windows Media Player, YouTube, etc). 100% Free!

Advanced Features

Capture Any Sound

Free Sound Recorder enables you to record any sound
passing through any line of your sound card. For example, you can record
sound from a microphone, an external LP, cassette, CD/DVD player,
AM/FM/Satellite radio, etc. It also has the ability to record
Internet broadcasts, streaming audio or local audio files reproduced
by other programs like RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, WinAmp,
iTunes and so on. What's more, you can even record
VoIP (Voice over IP) calls or Internet-telephony conversations
when using programs like Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo voice, MSN, etc.

Schedule Recording to Automatically Start & Stop

Want to schedule the recording of a file? You can
use Free Sound Recorder's powerful built-in scheduler to schedule
a recording to record from the selected source at a predefined time
and stop after a desired duration. It is convenient for time
triggered recording to record either for a website or anything
that runs on your desktop automatically at a specified time in any given
day. The recording can happen Once, Daily or Weekly.
From now on, you will never miss your beloved radio programs.

Enhance Recordings & Audio Files

Want to promote your recordings? Free Sound Recorder is your last
destination for it provides a digital audio editor
for free that helps you visually edit your recordings and other sound
files. With editing functions like Cut, Copy, Paste, Crop, Delete,
etc. and cool audio effects like Echo, Fade
in/out, Amplify, Chorus, Normalize, Compressor, etc., music
perfection is no longer a problem. Unlimited Undo & Redo help a
lot when restoring operations.

Record Web Radio with Ease

There are multiple web radio sites available, through
which you can listen to music and a variety of radio shows. It would
be nice to be able to record web radio shows, but is it possible to
get this done? Free Sound Recorder is an effective solution to help
record Internet radio stations or broadcasts from all
over the world without any effort. Now you can record latest news and
music from web radio stations for later playback.

Search & Play Web Radio Stations of All around The World

If you like to listen to Internet Radio, Free Sound
Recorder helps you listen to online radio stations
worldwide and live! You can easily search and play your favorite radio
programs about religion, sports, music, etc. It enables
you to search the stations via different categories and add them to
your list.

Watch Online TV Channels

With Free Sound Recorder, you can watch your favorite TV programs
online from around the world. Entertainment and Internet could be converged
to enable you get access to some of the most exciting online
TV channels like news, TV shows, movies, music, entertainment,
sports and so on from all over the world online in full screen
and completely free.

Manage Recordings through File List

When you finished the recording with Free Sound Recorder, the recorded
file will be automatically added to the file list with
detailed information like filename, location, date, duration &
size. Through the file list you can carry out operations like
playing current file, adding files to the list, copying current files
to the list, deleting current files and editing them in Cool
Record Editor Pro.

Customize Hotkeys as You Wish

Free Sound Recorder allows you to reassign hotkeys
for recording operation. You can use F2 or F3 or any
other keys as you want to start or stop the recording even when the
recorder window is not active in order not to record the click noise
when you hit the mouse.

Adjust Quality with Presets & Parameters

Free Sound Recorder supports multiple audio formats
and allows recording audio directly into MP3, WMA, WAV or OGG.
It automatically detects the recording formats that your sound card
supports and then sets the application's parameters of each format
for the best possible performance. The default parameters
work in most cases, but you can change them easily to best suit your
needs. Novices are able to use the ready-made presets.

Automatic Gain Control

Free Sound Recorder has a built-in Automatic Gain Control
(AGC) to adjust the volume of the recordings.
AGC is an adaptive algorithm to increase and equal overall sound
volume level. It helps you to reduce the volume if the signal
is strong and raise the volume when the signal is weaker. You can adjust
the parameters and apply/preview the effects immediately even in the
recording.

Voice Activation System

Free Sound Recorder has a Voice Active System with
which can identify voice more clearly. A voice activated system is a
hands-free, voice activated recording system. The device will hear your
voice (or other sound to record) and begin recording, without having
to push any buttons. With this voice recognition tool,
you can choose to skip silent passages, or stop the recording after
a certain amount of silence.

Auto-naming & Program Window on Top

Do you think it is inconvenient to overwrite hundreds of filenames
of the recordings? Free Sound Recorder offers an auto-naming
function so that you can avoid manually renaming every of them
and don't accidentally overwrite files if you need to record more
than once. The name is automatically formed by the date and time of
the recording. What's more, there is a function to make the recorder
program not hidden when you browse other pages or open a new folder,
keeping it at the top of all other windows.

Ease of Use

A snappy and user-friendly interface is presented
extremely simple with all buttons and controls big and clear enough
even for those poor-sighted. And configure presets makes the
quality adjustment brainlessly easy. You can start
recording just by one-click.

Enjoy sound recording easy as making a cup of coffee.
100% Free!

Free Sound Recorder runs on all versions of Windows from
98SE through Vista/Win7/8.